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that query was generated using phpMyAdmin. no idea what backticks are. anyway i made my table using

CREATE TABLE `managers` (
`name` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
`password` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
`webmaster` ENUM( 'false', 'true' ) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( `name` )
) TYPE = MYISAM ;

now i am having trouble querying my table,

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM managers WHERE name=$username");

where $username is provided end user from a form. i tried replacing $username with an a constant value, and still got no results